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My mistake. They did go there in ep. 10 at 13:08.

At the end of ep. 10 Rong Zelan collapses with the tetanus wound. Knocking over a tangerine with a green spot. In the next episode as she lays writhing in bed, the old physician is looking at a tangerine. I thought that we were seeing an early use of penicillin. But they didn't go there. Tetanus was also known as lockjaw, so the spitting of the blood shouldn't have happened. The ancient Chinese remedies focused on using herbal mixtures including insect and animal parts and botanicals to treat muscle stiffness, spasms and cleaning the woulds. Acupuncture was also used. Ancient Chinese also used mold but it seems not to be connected.

Kinda. This is more her fight to become the first female Imperial Physician.

I suspect it's a no win situation. If she accepted him and trusted that he wouldn't change his mind then there wouldn't be any tension in their relationship. The middle part of Shadow Love, which I love, but some found boring, comes to mind.
And I think that some people forget her actions in rallying the Family and engineering the burial of the Father and Brothers and the release of Wei Yun. Nothing Wei Yun has done so far matches that. imho. The Fish Talley and crossbow mechanism showed that trust in her is parceled out as necessary. The former was to seek her intentions and the later came by accident, not deliberate. I love Xu Kai and Wei Yun, but am firmly in Team Chu Yu. Just my two cents. Thank you.

Ep. 10 Looks like the solution to fight tetanus is close at hand.

It get better. I'm at 10. She triumphs over fairly worthy opponents.

Rong Zelan is written as a very strong and strategic FL. I like that. Hope that Song Ling Xiao works with her as equals in the last half of this drama. The female often takes a back seat. I'm looking at you My Heroic Husband.

Hong Xiao and Yang Ze were the main couple in Blade's Dance With You (2024) I enjoyed Yang Ze in Please Remember Me (2024) and the Demon (2025) but they weren't as loved as The Killer is Also Romantic (2022) I've seen White Cat Legend (2024) and Rising With the Wind (2023) but don't remember Hong Xiao's role in them.

Ep. 7 I wish that she could rescue all of those orphans at that place.

The Emperor wants the Crown Prince who went into hiding killed. He was reported to be in the Xue Mansion. So the top assassin is sent to find him and kill him. If necessary she will kill everyone in the Family. She is married to the head of the Xue Family but before the ceremony can be held, the Father falls ill and is in a coma. The assassin had earlier moved next door as a merchant but the son saw through her and suspects her. Now it became a battle of cat and dog between the two. At the same time a rival assassin entered with the mission to kidnap the Crown Prince. The drama is like an old time cartoon like Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner. But both are more evenly matched and the eventual romance between the son and stepmother is hinted at.

Possibly if you think reverence and having the hots for may not go well together. But I agree with your sentiment.

Kinda like an old cartoon. She is finding out that the family are like cockroaches. lol

The present day Lin Yan dreamed the story but as the original Lin Yan. So the dream Lin Yan knew nothing about the future. And the Family entered as participants whereas the present Lin Yan just dreamed it as the Tang Dynasty Lin Yan.
The Shen family changed too much of the past for the drama to pass the censors. Introducing different cuisines before their time, new cooking techniques and business ideas. So we saw that after the fire, nothing was changed nor anything remembered.

Happy but with a dollop of sadness just before the end. After marriage in the past, 'brother Li Ang tries to kill them but burns down the Diner. Realizing that it was time to return, Jicai pushes Lin Yan to safety while she disappears to the present. He wakes up to find that the Shen Family never existed. Everyone has forgotten them and he is also slowly losing his memories. of her and them. Where Shen's Diner existed has reverted to the original abandoned manor, but now newly burnt down. Lin Yan searched the burnt area but there were no bodies to prove that she had existed. He spent the rest of his life alone. First building a new Shen's Diner to protect his memory of her and filling a notebook with illustrations from the diner. It was very heart wrenching seeing him suffering alone like that and quite a few viewers were distressed. We saw it from his point of view which made it more sad. But not well shown nor remarked on was that Jicai had re-entered the dream after she left (how else could she write in her journal about his eventual fate after returning to the present?) She experienced his dream but as a bystander. An invisible bystander who watched and experienced his loneliness but could never comfort him. We are not shown the dream to the end from her point of view. That would have diluted the sadness of Lin Yan.

By making it a dream and none save Lin Yan remembering the Shen Family, Then all of the changes to the past that the Shen Family introduced, recipes from different eras, innovative business ideas, could all be hand waved away. Why have the modern Family forget is less clear, but it may to discourage putting too much faith in chasing dreams like time travel. This is aimed at modern people as well as the viewers. imho

You are right. Upon repeated views. Why the beard?

Subtitles called her Deyuan. MDL uses A Yuan. I didn't see through Liu Chang's beard.
Why was only Liu Chang's child shown. And the Mother wasn't shown? Not Pei's child, the presumed ancestor?

In Scent of Time, I regret that the ending implied that her maid never got a happy ending.

The appearance of bearded Liu Chang with the child in ep. 32 made me question why the baby appeared. And only that child appeared. I guess his wife would be the rescued 'slave' Deyuan. MDL has her name as A Yuan. I think that that is the genesis of the modern Shen Family.

Thank you.